Posted on 05/06/2007 12:31:46 PM PDT by wagglebee
Washington, D.C. — The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy (NCPTP) has designated May 2 as National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Day. The NCPTP campaign offers teens all sorts of glitz, products for sale and a quiz designed to inform them about the dangers of teen pregnancy. They also warn teens against the unrealistic expectations of abstinence programs.
“The problem is,” says Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse, Director and Senior Fellow of Concerned Women for America’s (CWA) Beverly LaHaye Institute, “warnings about abstinence programs fly in the face of their concern about teens’ well-being. During the heyday of condom-based programs, the rates of teen sexual activity, teen births and teen abortions grew. With the wider use of abstinence programs, all the trends have reversed direction and are going down. This reversal of trends in teen sexual activity, births and abortions is a remarkable achievement that the NCPTP ought to be celebrating. Further, the successes of the abstinence programs ought to be acknowledged, and teens should be encouraged to commit to abstinence. Could it be that business goals take precedence over the best interest of the teens they are supposed to serve?
“Our culture scoffs at chastity and is shocked to find teenage girls pregnant,” Crouse continued. “Programs that teach primarily contraception as a means of prevention largely ignore teaching values. This divorce of values from sexuality leads to a diminished respect for oneself, human life and sexuality in general. Abstinence programs, on the other hand, have been successful in reducing teen pregnancy and abortion as well as sexual activity and provide an opportunity to discuss value-based sexual activity.”
Dr. Crouse has just released an important study, “Why the Left is Attacking Abstinence Programs,” which uses official government data to track the three trends (teen sexual activity, teen births and teen abortions) to show the dramatic reversal in the trends that coincides with the wider use of abstinence-based programs across the country.
To read Dr. Crouse's study, click here.
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I say abstinence prevents virtually all pregnancy.
It works for adults also.
Abstinence prevents adult pregnancy, too!
>>CWA Says Abstinence Prevents Teen Pregnancy<<
Of course abstinence prevents pregnancy. The debate is over whether to spend government money on teaching abstinence and whether to prohibit other kinds of teaching.
Personally, I think that in the third world we should support birth control and condoms for disease prevention but in the U.S. this information is widely enough available that the Federal government doesn’t need to fund such efforts - states and locals can do so if they choose.
I would prefer my state and county not spend time on sex until they have great test scores and graduation rates with Georgia kids getting into good colleges but its a state’s right thing to control education - I don’t want to dictate to other states.
Now that said, I suspect that basic information about how to use barriers and birth control reduces pregnancy and disease more than the government teaching kids not to have sex.
It’s the one absolutely safe and effective means of birth control. As the Big Guy used to say, it works every time it’s tried.
Well, of course it does!
Abstinence prevents every other kind of pregnancy, too.
{{{rolls eyes}}}
I take it that YOU are just speculating on this?! :-)
Let me rephrase:
“Abstinence prevents adult pregnancy ... for up to a week, sometimes!”
(And I’m currently not pregnant, for some reason ...)
The Sex Positive Agenda (pushed by Reich, Kinsey, and feminists) seeks to see every sexually active at every age. They seek to end all moral judgements over sexual pairings regardless of sex, age, relation, marital status, number or species of partner(s).
They find abstinence to be “unhealthy” not because it doesn’t work but because they find it to be a supression of sexual desires (same as when you counsel a homosexual not to act on same sex desires).
Condoms in schools was about ending the debate over whether kids should be having sex and forever shifted the argument to WHEN kids have sex...
You should probably get that checked out, there might be something wrong!
I am a bit puzzled.
“Virtually” is correct. A very small number of women can still get pregnant from wind pollination.
LOL!
Well, there’s a lesson here ... if I can avoid pregnancy, *anyone* can!
I feel pretty positive about sex - but I still don’t want the Federal government spending tax dollars on it except as part of a foreign aid program.
I do think that when someone decides to be sexually active outside of a body fluid monogamous relationship they should use barriers and that its good for barriers to available cheaply. But until the average kid is getting a 650 on his math SAT and doing A.P. level science work I can’t see the Federal government having a role in sex ed. in local schools.
Maybe you can get booked on Oprah!
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